I'm amazed a lawyer didn't have issue with this.

He just gives me creep vibes, and seemingly much more on Milk Street. Hard to point at exactly why

You understand the value of Newton is it's proximity right? I bet the vast majority of people are employed in Boston, or because Boston exists there.

So you want the benefits of Boston without the externalities?

I guess I have a fundamental question. How is the town sustainable long term? If you aren't developing or improving property, does that mean property taxes go up 2-3 percent every year? At what point do folks say that's unacceptable? What about when that infrastructure built in the sixties needs to be updated, bridges, schools or major buildings? Who is going to pay for that? Or how?

Not even that far. Brookline has built some stuff but they're stuffing the biggest buildings onto tiny parcels and not allowing anything more dense pretty much anywhere

Property values also go down significantly once you approach a highway too.

I pulled mine out, topped the gas so you're all set for jinxing

FERS isn't great. It's 1% of your high 3 years multiplied by the number of years of service. If you exceed 20 years it's 1.1%.

If you do 40-50 years, it's nice since you still collect social security and you likely have TSP but the number of people I've seen get that far is really low.

I think her shows are sold out aren't they?

And saw her Wednesday. Good show minus the audience participation aspect. People just can't listen to instructions.

And demand pricing for parking. Better enforcement of parking downtown.

It is. They can run faster, they have less maintenance and issues in general. And oh yeah not beholden to the price of fuel to the same degree.

To a degree I understand it. If you incentivize someone from further not driving that makes life easier for everyone in between (e.g. one less driver).

Though as someone who lives next to the WR CR stop, I will never take the CR unless I have a weekend pass or work is paying for it. Even if it was 4 dollars I'd do it more often.

Concerns?

How is the safety negative?

There is a sewage analysis as part of this and their engineers say it's sufficient.

Shop around

It's been studied and shown to be the case.

The issue is the built up demand is so significant it will take ages to stabilize.

I have gotten things there and found them reasonable as well. If you find a frame you like they will mat and do everything else for even more reasonable, I think I had a couple 4x6 photos done in Goodwill frames for like 10-20 dollars each.

Ostensibly either someone has a lot of money or someone has a business plan that has a path to sustainability.

I wonder if the Revolution are in the black.

Most were established decades ago and while there have been expansions the huge growth has really only been the last two decades or so with the growth of media packages. I think the smallest market team makes more from the NFL tv deals than ticket sales now but there's a reason plenty of teams changed hands for a pittance ages ago. It wasn't the winning proposition it is today.

Economy parking, Logan Express or an mbta station depending on where I'm coming from.

I would have also accepted a food hall

And I've been by two or three times since it's opened. It's a matter of opinion about scale.

It really isn't that bad. Soldiers and Sailors is fifty feet tall at the top a a hill, and the bronze relief near the state house isn't as tall but its wider and more intrusive I think.

If it was much smaller more people would climb on it and cause issues.

Do people do large statues of people anymore?

I guess the Poe bronze is the most recently one I can think of but I think the trend has been to more abstract

I felt like the others were really derivative of other installations and monuments for different reasons. It likely wasn't the best, but it was the best of the options we had.